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Published time: 26 Aug, 2017 14:34 Edited time: 26 Aug, 2017 16:00 Amid tense debate on the future of Confederate statues around the US, business appears to be booming for a major Confederate flag manufacturer in Huntsville, Alabama. Alabama Flag & Banner – described as one of the last remaining confederate flag makers – is benefitting from […]
The Confederate submarine CSS H. L. Hunley bears the distinction of being the first submarine to ever sink an enemy ship. But the Hunley, a work of state-of-the-art engineering for its time, never returned from that mission on February 17, 1864. Instead, after exploding a “torpedo” below the waterline of the Union sloop-of-war USS Housatonic in Charleston […]
LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images America has always been a trailblazer. Whether it be Silicon Valley technology or a subprime debt disaster, last week’s U.S. news is this week’s global news. The latest export from America is the removal of controversial statues, and the world has responded with their own figures of hate. It began with the protests in […]
Published time: 23 Aug, 2017 13:43 Asian-American sportscaster Robert Lee was pulled from a University of Virginia football game because he shares his name with as a Confederate army general and his network did not wish to cause offence to viewers. ESPN took the decision as Confederate leader Robert Lee has become synonymous with the […]
OZY and WGBH are bringing you a terrific new TV show, Third Rail With OZY — launching on PBS this fall! Every Wednesday, we’re debating hot topics in the lead-up. This week’s topic: “Should Confederate symbols and statues be taken down?” Email thirdrail@ozy.com with your take. What’s in a statue? Or a flag? Charlottesville was […]
Despite a growing push across the US to dismantle monuments to Confederate generals and those who fought for the South during the American Civil War, the majority of Americans believe they should be kept in public spaces, a new poll says. Read more The Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found that 54 percent of adults believe Confederate […]
Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick criticized the University of Texas at Austin’s decision to remove Confederate statues from its campus late Sunday night as sending a “poor message,” while U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said the decision was one for individual universities to make. UT-Austin announced around 11 p.m. Sunday night that multiple Confederate statues were […]
Jonathan Drake/Reuters (Reuters) – As communities across the United States redouble efforts to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces after a far-right rally in Virginia turned deadly, city leaders now face another conundrum: what to do with the statues. President Donald Trump described them on Thursday as “beautiful statues and monuments,” part of the history […]
Monuments to Confederate generals and to those who fought for the South during the American Civil War have been targeted by protesters in a number of US cities, following the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A protester in Richmond, Virginia climbed on a statue of Confederate General J.E.B Stuart and placed […]
The US Army has refused a call by several Congressional Democrats to remove the names of two Confederate generals from several Brooklyn streets. Lawmakers claimed that keeping the names amounted to endorsing slavery and racism. In a letter sent to the New York congressional delegation over the weekend, the Army said it understood the concerns […]
